76 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 1990s
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Black Widow
Ohio New York ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ญ๐บ Hungary ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1990s The 2010sHer world. Her secrets. Her legacy. โ Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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Escape from Mogadishu
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya ๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990sDiplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
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The Last Mercenary
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan The 1990s The 2020sThe daddy of all secret agents. โ A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely accused of arms and drug trafficking by the government, following a blunder by an overzealous bureaucrat and a mafia operation.
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The One and Only Ivan
Washington Africa - General The 1970s The 1990sIt's never too late to discover who you are. โ A gorilla named Ivan whoโs living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
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Small Country: An African Childhood
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWhen The Innocence Of Childhood Faces History โ Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his โsmall countryโ. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.
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Dark Phoenix
New York ๐ซ๐ท France Africa - General The 1970s The 1990sThe Phoenix will rise. โ The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.
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Men in Black: International
New York England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1990s The 2010sThe universe is expanding โ The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
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The Mercy of the Jungle
๐จ๐ฌ Congo ๐จ๐ฉ Congo Democratic Republic of the ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 1990sThe Mercy of the Jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
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Papicha
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1990sAlgiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage through the public space. While a frenzied hunt for women unveiled is launched, Nedjma, a young student passionate about fashion, is determined to federate the girls of her campus to organize a fashion show braving all the forbidden.
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Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story
๐ธ๐ด Somalia The 1990s...of the 2-14 Infantry Battalion from the 10th Mountain Division during the battle of Mogadishu in October, 1993 โ Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story is a documentary film on the heroic efforts of the soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (2-14). These men demonstrated extraordinary courage, skill, and discipline as they fought their way into a โbaited ambushโ to rescue the special operations forces pinned down at the crash site of Super Six-One while also attempting a rescue at the crash site of Super Six-Four. Two soldiers from the 2-14 were killed and eighteen wounded in what many have described as the most ferocious urban combat since the Battle for Huแบฟ during the Tet Offensive in 1968.
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Black Panther
Africa - General California England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria The 1990s The 2010sLong live the king. โ King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Aquaman
Atlantic Ocean ๐ฎ๐น Italy Maine Massachusetts ๐ช๐ญ Western Sahara The 2010s The 1980s The 1990sHome Is Calling โ Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast army at his disposal, Orm plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people and then the surface world. Standing in his way is Arthur Curry, Orm's half-human, half-Atlantean brother and true heir to the throne.
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Avengers: Infinity War
New York Scotland Africa - General The 2010s The 1990sAn entire universe. Once and for all. โ As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
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The Forgiven
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1990sRacist. Prisoner. Murderer. Child of God. โ After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
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Beautifully Broken
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sA Refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. โ As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become interwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Jagga Jasoos
๐ฎ๐ณ India Africa - General The 1990sA gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
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Birds Are Singing in Kigali
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sWe meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor โ Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
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Captain America: Civil War
New York Massachusetts Ohio England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria Africa - General The 1990s The 2010sDivided We Fall โ Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
๐ธ๐พ Syria ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foleyโs close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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Watchers of the Sky
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ผ Rwanda ๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1910s The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1990s The 1940sFive interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
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The Repentant
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1990sAlgeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law ยซ of pardon and national harmony ยป, he has to surrender to the police and give up his weapon. He thus receives amnesty and becomes a ยซ repenti ยป. But the law cannot erase his crimes and for Rachid it's the beginning of a one-way journey of violence, secrets and manipulation.
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1940sIt is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. โ A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
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The Pardon
๐ท๐ผ Rwanda The 1990sAfter being imprisoned for the killing of ethnic Tutsis during the Rwandan genocide, Manzi must face the emotional and psychological consequences of his most personal crime: the murder of his best friend's family.
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Searching for Sugar Man
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa Michigan The 1990sGreat Art Always Survives โ Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez. The film won Best Documentary at the 85th Academy Awards.
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The Assault
๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1990sMonday 26th December 1994. Marignane Airport. โ December 1994. On Saturday 24th, four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus, bound for Paris, with 227 passengers on board, at the Algiers airport.
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